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thank you. >> next, a look at negotiations rubble around the so-called fiscal cliff on friday here in washington. first, speaker boehner's morning news conference, followed by house minority leader's nancy pelosi i. then president obama friday afternoon from the white house. issue is not whether health care will be stigmatized or condemned. we know the answer to that. the issue is how many different times can the government to punish him as a result of that moral condemnation. the answer in the double jeopardy clause is one. >> starting monday and a threat christmas week, c-span.org radio is featuring supreme court arguments by current justices before they were on the bench. you can listen to c-span.org radio in the washington baltimore area at 90.1 fm. or online at c-span.org. >> if you worked for him, you would get a material, sometimes generous, sometimes over barry -- overbearing, almost cruel boss. he did not know how to apologize. men of his age and class, they are not going to apologize to their secretaries or typist. he had a way of turning the tables in his version of an apol
thank you. >> next, a look at negotiations rubble around the so-called fiscal cliff on friday here in washington. first, speaker boehner's morning news conference, followed by house minority leader's nancy pelosi i. then president obama friday afternoon from the white house. issue is not whether health care will be stigmatized or condemned. we know the answer to that. the issue is how many different times can the government to punish him as a result of that moral condemnation. the answer...
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thanks so much. congratulations. >> mr. president, fiscal cliff, is there going to be a deal? >> also on capitol hill today, republican senators talked about a recent state department talked about the attack in benghazi. senior officials testified to congress on thursday about the attack that led to the death of u.s. ambassador chris stevens. senators mccain and graham talked about the nomination of john kerry to be secretary of state. this is about half an hour. >> good afternoon, i am joined by other senators to comment on the tragedy surrounding benghazi. it has been more than three months after the attack that killed four americans, including the ambassador. the american people are beginning to get the answers they deserve, but there are more relevant questions that still need to be answered. the report of the state department's accountability review board is a serious and credible effort that identifies failures of officials and institutions in the department. several people have lost their jobs. it is a good start, but only a start. the tragedy raised other serious quest
thanks so much. congratulations. >> mr. president, fiscal cliff, is there going to be a deal? >> also on capitol hill today, republican senators talked about a recent state department talked about the attack in benghazi. senior officials testified to congress on thursday about the attack that led to the death of u.s. ambassador chris stevens. senators mccain and graham talked about the nomination of john kerry to be secretary of state. this is about half an hour. >> good...
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thank you all very much. >> the fiscal cliff proposals in the house and senate. the majority leader said that the house should take up legislation taken up by the senate. this is about 15 minutes. >> without democrat and republican votes, which means any solution will have to ask the most fortunate to pay a little bit more to reduce our deficit and insure that it does not take our nation to the brink of default. nothing that has passed the house of representatives meets that test. nothing. president obama and speaker boehner. poised to strike a grand bargain a couple of days ago. we have heard that before. instead of making -- instead of making our dresses about compromise, the speaker retreated to his corner and resorted to political stunts. that is done, and fell flat. it is time for the speaker and all republicans to return to the negotiating table. we have never left. it is time for republicans to work with us to find a middle ground. it is the only hope of averting the devastating impact of the fiscal cliff. the fiscal cliff needs to be avoided. in the meant
thank you all very much. >> the fiscal cliff proposals in the house and senate. the majority leader said that the house should take up legislation taken up by the senate. this is about 15 minutes. >> without democrat and republican votes, which means any solution will have to ask the most fortunate to pay a little bit more to reduce our deficit and insure that it does not take our nation to the brink of default. nothing that has passed the house of representatives meets that test....
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i do believe we need to go over the fiscal cliff to. coming up and having to do a deal at the end of every year is getting old because everybody is rush. what we need to do is it that, let us go over the fiscal cliff, put a temporary hold on everything and let these guys see if they can work out a deal. so far, they have not been able to do it for the last four years. i do believe we need to say -- stay at 18%-20% gdp. as far as cuts, we have really never got in because we were supposed to. that is just like the sequestered. that was passed in 2011. they are still working on the cuts. most of the cuts are based on the increase is built into the baseline. when we do cuts, we need to go back to a zero baseline. host: we will leave it there. stephen dinan. guest: your callers are incredibly a form of this. host: we have a sharp plunge out there. -- bunch out there. guest: president, says his plan will produce x billions of dollars more than boehner's plan. both of them are talking about increased deficits over the baseline. they are talkin
i do believe we need to go over the fiscal cliff to. coming up and having to do a deal at the end of every year is getting old because everybody is rush. what we need to do is it that, let us go over the fiscal cliff, put a temporary hold on everything and let these guys see if they can work out a deal. so far, they have not been able to do it for the last four years. i do believe we need to say -- stay at 18%-20% gdp. as far as cuts, we have really never got in because we were supposed to....